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Name: Getic Kingdom

Type: Polity

Start: 359 BC

End: 250 BC

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Was one of the many kingdoms created by Germanic peoples during the Migration Period.

Establishment

  • January 359 BC: The Getae perhaps became independent during the rule of Odrysian king Cotys I or after his death in 360 BC.

    • Chronology

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    1. Wars of Alexander the Great

    Were a series of conquests that were carried out by Alexander III of Macedon (known as Alexander "The Great") from 336 BC to 323 BC. Alexander conquered the Persian Empire and also expanded his kingdom into the Indian Subcontinent.

    1.1.Alexander's Balkan campaign

    Was a campaign waged by Alexander the Great in the Balkan against a number of rebellious vassals of the Macedonian kingdom.

  • January 334 BC: In 335 BC, Alexander the Great, the king of Macedonia, defeated the Thracian tribe of the Triballi at Haemus Mons and along the Danube. This victory led to the surrender of the Triballi on Peuce Island.

    • Disestablishment

  • January 249 BC: The kingdom survived two wars with Lysimachus and the Celtic invasion in around 280 BC, but eventually disintegrated a few decades later. Helis/Sboryanovo was completely destroyed by an earthquake in the middle of the 3rd century BC.

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